Anthony G. Reddie
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1st ever Professor of Black Theology in the University of Oxford. Also, an editor, dramatist, some time funny man! Views are my own!
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Have just been informed by Vice Chancellor of Oxford University that I have been awarded the title of Professor of Black Theology. The 1st ever in over 800 years. Still taking it in.
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I am to be entered for the Oxford University Theology and Religion department REF. This is a great affirmation of my scholarship and a great turnaround from how things were several years ago when a job application was rejected as my books were not considered "good enough"!
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I would appreciate your support as I am being attacked for supporting the conference on Critical White Theology on the 17th April by those determined to mis-represent what the conference is about.
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It's still sinking in.
"Thanks to Professor Reddie's efforts, Oxford has become a centre for the study of Black Theology in the UK and in the wider world".
Read about
@AnthonyGReddie
, who has become the first professor of Black Theology in
@OU_TheoReligion
@uniofoxford
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I am absolutely delighted to announce that Oxford university Theology and Religion dept have signed off on my proposal to offer a paper on James Cone for third year undergraduate students. Hopefully this will start next Spring.
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More official recognition within
@UniofOxford
. Still taking it in.
@DLClough
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@ChurchTimes
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So the advevtute begins. Travelling to Oxford for my 1st working day as the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regent's Park College. And I did 26 minutes on my exercise cycle before I left home as well. All good!
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I've been invited by the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University to preach the University sermon at Great St Mary's, the University Church, in October 2020 or January 2021. Looking forward to bringing my postcolonial, Black liberation perspectives into the heart of Cambridge.
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Somewhat ironic that a Prime Minister who once described Black people as 'Piccaninnies' with 'watermelon smiles' has the temerity to admonish anti-racist activists for their behaviour and conduct. Boris Johnson is morally bankrupt when it comes to addressing of racism!
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Have just agreed to be on Radio 5Live tomorrow morning, to discuss the situation in the US. 7am is a tough ask, but I agreed to do it.
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Pretty much what my friend has been pilloried for saying.
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Marked probably the best piece of undergraduate work I have ever seen. Brilliant to the point where at times the student lost me in their theological analysis. My co-marker agreed with me and we have given it the highest mark possible. I have read less worthy PhDs than this!
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He still accused me of being a biased lefty. I responded saying "guilty as charged - 'that's what being a liberation theologian means. I am a biased lefty who is on the side of the poor and marginalised". Some Christians need to read the Bible more! 2/2
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Press release is out.
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Oxford University press have offered me a contract for the forthcoming 'Living Black Theology: Issues of Pedagogy, Mission, and Praxis'. Should be out circa May/June 2023
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@sovietblobfish
@BLCKD_COM_PILLD
Funny how the McCarthy Witch hunts and being blacklisted and thrown out of the fim industry has been conveniently airbrushed out of history!!!!!
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Myself Prof John Swinton and
@JustinWelby
at Lambeth Palace earlier today.
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@RegentsOx
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A good day just became a great one when SCM press asked me to endorse Jarel Robinson-Brown's forthcoming book "Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace". Thrilled to read the text and endorse this prophetic work.
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Thrilled that my nephew passed his A levels and is going to Durham university to read for a degree in theology. He is a super bright and hard working young man who deserves this moment of success!
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Honoured to be a recipient if the Lanfranc award from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Even better to be sharing it with such an amazing scholar of the calibre of John Swinton.
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I had two indignant white women approach me on the park bench where I was sitting in my local park saying that my presence was unsettling them. I ignored them and continued reading my book. Talk about White middle class entitlement. This will be in the next book trust me. SMDH.
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The application for promotion to Professor has been submitted to Oxford university once again. We will see what emerges at the other end of the process after the problems last year. In the meantime, I am proud to be a Professor Extraordinarius with The University of South Africa
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There's a new womanist theological star in Britain. I will let her tell you the good news herself. Suffice it to say it was a BRILLIANT thesis!
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Annoying that my application to become a Full Professor in Oxford university (they don't recognise my award from UNISA) was thwarted because they couldn't find three independent people available to assess my application!
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Finally received my Lanfranc award from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Shame no family to celebrate with, but thankful nonetheless.
@RegentsOx
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@SanjeePerera1
@quadview
@philosofemme
@JarelRB
@mjoliver79
@DGravesande
@SelinaRStone
@Muffinink
@JustinWelby
@RajivDSidhu
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That moment of revelation when talking to a Black theological student who has spent years being taught theology and never knew that Augustine was an African man. Funny how when genius is in a Black skin, ethnicity suddenly doesn't matter!
@SanjeePerera1
@JarelRB
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Have been invited to write an article for the 'Church Times' on the toxic theology that underpinned Brexit - an Unholy trinity of White privilege conservative politics and English exceptionalism.
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Watching the wonderful diversity in Birmingham, my adoptive home, for the opening of the Commonwealth Games, I believe in multiculturalism with all my heart. Call it 'woke' or 'progressive', this is simply modern Britain!
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Myself being interviewed by Nicky Campbell on Radio Five Live. I won't be watching as I hate listening to my own voice and even worse seeing myself.
@RegentsOx
@RegentsMinistry
"America is still a country that's underpinned by white supremacism"
Professor
@AnthonyGReddie
, talks to
#5LiveBreakfast
about why he believes there is such widespread civil unrest in the United States.
Read more📱
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Here's the latest book. No.23 in total. Thanks especially to Carol Troupe for doing the heavy lifting and all the brilliant contributors.
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Forthcoming book. Out next month, 27th July. Grateful to Dwight Hopkins,
@willackah
and
@DLClough
for generous endorsements.
@RegentsOx
@BethjAllison
@CBSOxford
@SST_Theology
@uk_trs
@BIAPTheology
@iache2022
@UniofOxford
@CMSPioneer
@queensfdn
@SusannaWesleyFd
@LKCManchester
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The new (to me) receptionist at Regent's recognises me and says "we had a student looking around the College with her parents earlier this year and she said she came because she had read one of your books.
@RegentsOx
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@FrJarelRB
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Wearing my favourite shirt as I get ready to travel to Durham university. I'm a keynote speaker at a Common Awards symposium on Decolonising the Curriculum (for Theological Education and ministerial training). How do we unmask the embedded empire of domesticated Whiteness?
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As I told a friend yesterday, currently feels like 20 years of work in order to become an overnight success. So, now Queen's College Cambridge university have invited me to come and preach a Black theology sermon in their Evensong in the new term.
@RegentsOx
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Heard a White Anglican Priest explain why he's standing as a candidate for the Brexit Party. God has told him to speak up for the forgotten people. Presumably he means poor White people because Brexit hasn't spoken for migrants on the wrong end of xenophobia and racist attacks.
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Complimentary copies of the new book arrived a short while ago. The sense of joy and pride never dissipate even though this book no.19.
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@OxfordRace
@inclusivechurch
@RevShemil
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White male privilege! A White actor with no discernible expertise in analysing racism gets to talk down a Black woman who teaches it in a University and a less than impartial chair and the bulk of the audience agree with her. Welcome modern Britain.
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My ego is still absorbing the fact that at the time of writing there are 3 students (in different institutions) studying me and my work. WTH. One of them interviewed me recently and called me a genius! Me, a working class oik from East Bowling, BD4!
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Had a surprisingly email from a guy a shared a flat with back in my u/g days at B'ham uni in 1986. I remember him as a right wing son of a farmer and we argued constantly for the year we lived together. Now he says he's read my books especially 'Is God Colour Blind' and is a fan!
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The new book is finally out. Book no.18 in total and arguably my best thus far. Now to try and persuade the publisher to bring out a simultaneous paperback version so that non academics can buy it. It is, after all, the first postcolonial scholarly treatment of Brexit around!
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Me and the inimitable Willie James Jennings at the AAR.
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My next (co-edited) book - 'Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission'. We have a great cast of players such as
@DLClough
@mikehigton
@everparker
@VicAnneTurner
@hodgehillvicar
@RegentsOx
@SST_Theology
@uk_trs
@ruth_hw
@jillmarsh23
@ARanawana25
A historic first text!
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Gearing up to travel to Lambeth Palace for the Lambeth awards tomorrow (I was a 2020 Lanfranc winner). Proud for myself, but receiving it for services to Black Theology, I am proud of the wider movement also.
@RegentsOx
@UniofOxford
@FrJarelRB
@SanjeePerera1
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Selfie following the very ever class/course on James Cone in the long history of academic theology in Oxford University. These students have been phenomenal!
@RegentsOx
@OU_TheoReligion
@SST_Theology
@BIAPTheology
@ScholarPriest
@queensfdn
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After my unhappy experience with the journal 'Religions' and being told by a reviewer that my narrative based article was not scholarly, today is 'revenge time' as I am writing a book chapter that is entirely narrative based and will be using it to critique Eurocentric theorising
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I wonder if Black liberation theologians like me and many others are fooling ourselves if we think that we can drag Christianity back to the simplicity and prophetic witness of Jesus of Nazareth, an itinerant rabbi who had no where to lay his head.
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Marcus Rashford is racially abused in social media after Man United's defeat last night; one of his abusers being a Maths teacher. Racism isn't about Education, it's about the power of Whiteness - the social constructs that identify some people as the others.
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Just assessed a possible doctoral student with an outstanding academic profile with the kind of references to die for. And they want to study with yours truly in Oxford university. I am wondering if I am worthy of them let alone the other way around! lol
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Thrilled for my friend for his transition into a new expression of ministry. Brilliant! He will be a blessing to many.
We're so😊Parish Assistant
@JarelRB
has been been accepted for ordination in the CofE & will serve as a priest
@dioceseoflondon
Pls pray for him as he waits to find out where he'll go. Also you can now buy 'The Book of Queer Prophets' curated by
@ruth_hunt
to which he contributed
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Have been asked to give the 2021 Margaret Harris lecture on Religion at Dundee University this coming November. Previous speakers include
@monasiddiqui7
His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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Black theology is not any theological work done by ALL Black people, especially, if they are conservative and biblical literalists. Black theology is and will be always a theology of liberation that affirms the inclusion of all peoples who marginalised and oppressed.
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I am somewhat bemused at the sense surprise being expressed at the disproportionately high number of deaths BaME people in this C19 pandemic. Black theologians & sociologists have been arguing about such social disparities for the past 40 years. Now this can't be ignored.
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20th anniversary of me passing my PhD viva voce. 16 books have followed, plus 76 book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles and have also edited 52 issues of Black Theology: An international Journal and also having an 'A rating, Leading International researcher' evaluation.
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I've always been a firm believer in Paul Tillich's dictum that life is live forwards but understood backwards. With that in mind, I am reserving comment on the current pandemic. I am ensconced within it to such an extent that critical reflection will have to emerge later.
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As a liberation theologian I have often been accused of engaging in class warfare. But the current fiasco with A level results shows that no one does class warfare better than an administration run by a patrician loving Eton educated Tory.
@MollyBoot1
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The trend of suddenly being discovered after 20 years of work continues - I have been invited to give the 2023 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at Westminster Abbey and Keble College, Oxford university. I will be in extremely good company following
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Ain't that the truth.
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About to commence a class on the history of Black liberation theology and BLM for the Leo Baeck College. Should be fun discussing Black liberation to a group of trainee rabbis in the progressive Jewish tradition.
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Looking forward to making history teaching a course on James Cone the 'Father' of Black Theology in Oxford University. The first course of its kind to be taught in the university's long history of academic theology.
@RegentsOx
@DeanKBD
@CornelWest
@ScholarPriest
@SST_Theology
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One of the best ways to end a talk is with the great James Baldwin "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
@FrJarelRB
@RajivDSidhu
@SanjeePerera1
@rajpatta
@RegentsOx
@BethjAllison
@LamandaP1
@LMinghella
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Black Theology IS NOT based on CRT or Marxist ideology but on the God of theJudeo-Christian tradition whose character is disclosed in a crucified, colonised and oppressed Galilean Jew.
@UniofOxford
@RegentsOx
@SanjeePerera1
@lucaslarner
@SST_Theology
@queensfdn
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Academic theology in Britain is amongst the whitest of all disciplines. One can LITERALLY count on one hand the number of Black people in university based academic jobs. Church based theological education isn't much better.
@SST_Theology
@queensfdn
@ScholarPriest
@SanjeePerera1
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A new book by my brother Richard Reddie. In our post George Floyd era this is a must read.
@RegentsOx
@SST_Theology
@uk_trs
@ChrisShannahan
@VicAnneTurner
@SanjeePerera1
@Muffinink
@rajpatta
@penielrufus
@BloomsburyCBC
@CBSOxford
@LKCManchester
@TraineeVicarMan
@ScholarPriest
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Watching a documentary on Jimmy Carter and there is no doubt in my mind that he is the greatest ever ex-President. I had the pleasure of briefly being a visiting Fellow at the Carter Center in 1999. I was introduced to him. He said, "Hi I'm Jimmy, what's your name young man?'
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Disgraceful. No other word for it.
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@DavidOlusoga
Katie Cannon, who was a leading womanist (Black feminist for convenient short hand) theologian once said "When entitlement is the norm, equality feels like a defeat." Pretty much sums up the push back from some to your excellent and informative historical documentaries!
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Just had to exercise great restrain not cuss out a white man on a fb thread who had the temerity to inform me that I don't understand the complexity of racism. I'm an A rated - Leading International researcher with 18 books to my name, but I lack his insight!
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My complimentary copies arrived a short while ago. Book no.21.Nuff thanks to
@SCM_Press
and
@ShervingtonD
for a smooth process. Book launch 10th October at Regent's Park College 4pm.
@RegentsOx
@ejmcrawford
@SST_Theology
@ScholarPriest
@SanjeePerera1
@_mikeroyal
@BethjAllison
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Wiley has been suspended from Twitter for antisemitism (rightly so) but they tolerated Katie Hopkins' vile racism for years. Just like the AoC told Anglicans not to vote Labour because of antisemitism but said nothing about BJs racism against Black people and muslims.
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Reflecting on a very enjoyable Greenbelt this year. Was deeply moved to see the tent in which I was speaking full to overflowing and the deeply respectful way in which the audience engaged. I owe a huge deep debt of thanks to the URC for their hospitality.
@greenbelt
@URCGlobal
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Seeing the provision for final year papers in the 'Further Studies on a Special Theologian' in Oxford uni Hilary term starts with Anselm and ends with Bonhoeffer and Rahner, I now have my sacred mission in life - to get a paper on James H Cone on that list.
@mjoliver79
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So with all this time on my hands you would think I would be in writing and reading heaven. The golden gift for all scholars. And yet I am finding myself strangely distracted and unable focus! Very irritating given all the time I have at my disposal!
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All suited and booted for the Waynflete dinner at Magdalen college, University of Oxford yesterday evening. An amazing occasion. Invited courtesy of Dr Elizabeth Bolorinos Allard who is a Fellow by Examination. Oxford University is bonkers but great fun.
@UniofOxford
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Hugely honoured and gratified to be in a position to help bring about a modicum of change and new perspectives in Oxford University.
@RegentsOx
@ScholarPriest
@SST_Theology
@uk_trs
@DLClough
@SusannaWesleyFd
@SusanBGriffith
@_mikeroyal
@19Averil
@AkeemAdagbada
'Thanks to Professor Reddie's efforts, Oxford has become a centre for the study of Black Theology in the UK and in the wider world.'
Read more about Prof
@AnthonyGReddie
- Oxford's first Professor of Black Theology ⬇️
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I can't say too much for obvious reasons but a certain person may be heartened that half way through a doctoral thesis I'm getting ready to examine, I see a new theological star emerging on the horizon. Nuff said!
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Had an amazing conversation with a young White male theologian who genuinely believed that his social location had no bearing on the systematic theology he was producing. I had to ask him if like the elves and the shoemaker he some faceless minions writing his books for him?
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I still meet people who seem surprised that a non ordained person can be an accomplished theologian. Even my own Methodist tradition that claims to have a high calling for lay people (more imagined than real in my experience) still assumes all theologians are ordained.
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Looking across the vast expanse of Church history one sees that the church has always liked the notion of prophetic Christianity but often only loves prophets once they are dead so that they can eulogise them after the fact.
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Heading back to Brum after a great time in Durham deconstructing and decolonising Common Awards. I leave aware of my ambivalence at being a visible sign of dissonance and difference in the nearly complete White world of academic theology in the UK. I shouldn't be so unusual.
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The cover to my republished book out in early August.
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In solidarity with the Revd Jarel Robinson Brown!!!!!
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Enjoying listening to Revd Sonia Hicks, the first Black woman to sit in John Wesley's Chair as the President of The Methodist Conference (going back to 1744).
@JarelRB
@SallyRush13
@queensfdn
@Stphotina
@charitynzegwu
@hodgehillvicar
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James Baldwin "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." This couldn't be any truer than at this moment in the body politic of Britain regarding systemic racism.
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That wonderful feeling when a former student says that they have decided against a lucrative career in the City in favour of social justice work because of the Liberation theology class you taught them last year.
@RegentsOx
@CEJoynes
@ejmcrawford
@mjoliver79
@ScholarPriest
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“The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.” James Baldwin
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One of my most cherished and moving acts. To be asked by the great James Cone to endorse his final book. The request came via Orbis books. To be counted amongst the hallowed few to give witness to the greatest theologian of the 20th century was a rare honour indeed!
@RegentsOx
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Off to Oxford University to be interviewed for the
@OU_TheoReligion
department re my new Professorship in Black Theology. Being the 1st Professor of Black Theology in the history of Oxford University still feels weird.
@UniofOxford
@SST_Theology
@BIAPTheology
@ptoficial23_
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Purchased my first Black Oxford (MA) gown in readiness for my first experience of High Table at Regent's Park College this coming Friday. The shop assistant was remarkably tolerant at my ignorance. But I'm a working class from a state school after all who only went Bham uni lol
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Chuffed to have the next but one book project accepted by Oxford university press. The book is tentatively entitled 'Living Black Theology: Issues of pedagogy, mission and praxis'. Book no. 22
@RegentsOx
@uk_trs
@UniofOxford
@mjoliver79
@RajivDSidhu
@JarelRB
@SST_Theology
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If we needed any evidence that the C of E is the Tory party at prayer then one only needs to look at the latest missive from the A.o.C Lots to say about Labour antisemitism but very little about the dog-whistle racism of Boris Johnson. These Eton types have to stick together.
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It is an odd and perverse world when being anti-colonial and imperialist makes you an dangerous radical as if there is anything normal about occupying other people's land and controlling and exploiting their resources.
@FrJarelRB
@R0b5m1th
@paulbayes
@ReeCollective
@ResearchCRED
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In my room at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Teaching 6 sessions on Black Theology over the next 2 days. Day 1 doctrine: God, Jesus and Holy Spirit. Tuesday Bible, church and mission. Can't wait.
@RajivDSidhu
@lucaslarner
@DocBrush
@RiponCuddesdon
@SST_Theology
@ScholarPriest
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Chaired my first Fellows meeting for the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regent's Park College and then volunteered to give a paper at the weekly seminar when the scheduled speaker called in ill this morning. Fabulous first of the Hilary term in Oxford university.
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Thrilled at the news that my friend Professor Clive Marsh has been appointed as the new Principal of the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education. He's only the second Methodist to be Principal and the first lay person.
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You know you've become a grown up serious academic when you find yourself invited for a breakfast meeting with the Commissioning Editor of a major academic publishing company and they're paying 😆
@lucaslarner
@RegentsOx
@SanjeePerera1
@FrJarelRB
@TraineeVicarMan
@PaulGWeller
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I had a conservative voting Christian criticising me as being biased to the left. I pointed to Jesus' own words, the 8th century prophets, the traditional of a common-wealth practised by the early church. Suffice it to say that he was not convinced. 1/2
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'Theologizing Brexit' has been sent off to the Church Times. It should be published on the 21st September in a special issue on Brexit. My book of the same title should be out next summer with Routledge.
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Heading off to Cambridge University to give a paper to the Theology faculty - "Dealing with the Two Deadly Ds: Deconstructing Whiteness and Decolonising the Curriculum (of Theological Education)".
@RegentsOx
@SST_Theology
@uk_trs
@ScholarPriest
@TraineeVicarMan
@SanjeePerera1
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Listening to my colleague
@PaulGWeller
giving us a historical appraisal of critical Whiteness and anti-racist activism in the UK and why so little progress has been made.
#dismantlingwhiteness
@RegentsOx
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